Gender imbalance among donors in living kidney transplantation: The Norwegian experience

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 783-789

  Øien, Cecilia Montgomery ^a,b   Reisæter, Anna Varberg ^c   Leivestad, Torbjørn ^c   Pfeffer, Per ^c   Fauchald, Per ^c   Os, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b St Olvas Hospital   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gender; Graft function; Graft survival; Kidney transplantation; Living donor

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 17144391871     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh696     Document Type: Article

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